ubuntu-server-zfsbootmenu VS sanoid

https://github.com/Sithuk/ubuntu-server-zfsbootmenu I've been using this with success in my last few installs

Several of us on this sub have been using this script to install ZFS on ubuntu with zfsbootmenu: https://github.com/Sithuk/ubuntu-server-zfsbootmenu

If you want a ZFS root, look at https://zfsbootmenu.org/. If you want it for Ubuntu specifically, consider Sithuk's script which automates it at https://github.com/Sithuk/ubuntu-server-zfsbootmenu .

If you're going Ubuntu, you might want to consider Sithuk's automated script, which makes the process considerably easier. https://github.com/Sithuk/ubuntu-server-zfsbootmenu

Looks like someone (u/Sithuk) already has messed around with setting that up with a script. No idea how well it works, but I'd definitely use it as a reference: https://github.com/Sithuk/ubuntu-server-zfsbootmenu

I ended up trying this and it worked almost flawlessly (issue with auto-selecting apt mirrors, but easily fixed).

https://github.com/Sithuk/ubuntu-server-zfsbootmenu this project is probably the closest I have seen to the idea install.

I’m on the other end of the spectrum. I like knowing the flags and settings I use to create the pools.

For snapshots and replication take a look at sanoid (https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid).

I use a combo of PBS and ZFS with Sanoid. The ZFS snapshots are nice because you define it all in a config file with frequent, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly snaps retained however you want. Importantly I use that on the root pool as well as my data pools. With PBS I have a custom retention config and have it backing up VMs and LXCs every couple hours. The PBS dedupe functionality makes it possible to keep full backups going back ages with minimal storage consumption, just the changed blocks. PBS is running inside a VM yes, but it’s storage is on another pool.

[3] https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid/

No, it's written by the developer of Sanoid and Syncoid. The foremost open source ZFS snapshotting tool. He contributes on this sub all the time.

Hi there! Not so much to answer your questions, but are you aware of Sanoid and syncoid? It does backup and remote Sync in the most seamless way. Perhaps this would solve some of your concerns...